Comments on: A couple of Orioles fans submitted 38,000 All-Star Game ballotshttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2014/06/25/a-couple-of-orioles-fans-submitted-38000-all-star-game-ballots/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Sat, 10 Dec 2016 02:56:52 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: favrewillplay4everhttp://mlb.nbcsports.com/2014/06/25/a-couple-of-orioles-fans-submitted-38000-all-star-game-ballots/comment-page-2/#comment-730131
Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:27:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-730131It’s really simple. Every NL team plays every AL team each year. Use their head to head record for the season to determine home field advantage.

This will add more excitement to the LCS series since you will have fans of one LCS competitors cheating for one of the teams in the other league as well.

Hypothetically,

Braves and Cubs in NLCS
Yankees and Tigers in ALCS

Braves finish with winning record against Yankees and losing record against the Tigers. Braves fan cheers for the Yankees as well in the ALCS

Tigers finish with losing record against Cubs and winning record against Braves. Their fans cheer for Cubs.

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Thu, 26 Jun 2014 02:29:12 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728942Yeah we used paper ballots. On Eutaw Street (a road that goes through the inside of Camden Yards for those not familiar) there is a booth set up where you can pick up boxes of 1500 ballots. A lot of teams have promotions like this, so I doubt we broke any rules. This is at least the third or fourth year that the Orioles have ran the promotion. We barely got into the top 5, which is what you needed to be to get a suite. One lady had turned in nearly 50,000 last Friday. I simply punched the ballots whenever I watched a game on tv.
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Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:54:51 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728931rWAR has a baserunning component, It covers caught stealing and being thrown out attempting to take an extra base but not pick offs.
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Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:46:27 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728930Crisfield, crabs, mmm!
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Thu, 26 Jun 2014 01:21:45 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728922I would give the home field advantage to the league that LOST the previous years World Series
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Thu, 26 Jun 2014 00:50:33 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728913Actually neither of us are single, we date one another. You’d be surprised at how easy the ballots are to punch too! We both live 3 hours from Baltimore so we watched most games from home and those few hours became designated ballot-punching hours. We had fun and have won a ton of prizes. Definitely worth it if you ask me!
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Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:07:24 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728866Ironically, it’s an Election Day with record low turnout in MD. No ballot boxes being stuffed, except for the ASG.
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Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:05:02 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728863Um, they’re teenagers, and they probably had a blast doing it.
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Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:02:50 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728861Show me the math on how it’s not fair. Overall team record is used all the time to determine..well…everything. Home field advantage in every playoff series in every sport is determined by team record, yet no one ever jumps up and down and calls it random.

You’re never going to have a completely balanced or “fair” schedule. Won/loss record makes the most sense. And no, it’s not just as random as arbitrarily flip-flopping each year.

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Wed, 25 Jun 2014 22:26:54 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728814
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Wed, 25 Jun 2014 21:13:26 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728737I’m sure they used paper ballots. The Washington Nationals had a similar promotion, where you get swag for ballots (like a couple of bobbleheads for turning in 1,000 ballots). I get to a fair number of games and I was bringing stacks of ballots home after games. Unfortunately, I never got around to punching them out and missed the deadline. Now I have 2,500 all-star ballots taking up space in my condo.
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Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:36:50 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728703My favorite other method is the overall interleague record, with total runs as a tiebreaker (and boxcar hobo fights to back that up.)
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Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:27:34 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728645Gah. What idiots. If you actually think you have a shot at making the WS anyone who just votes for their team is window licker. Put the best possible team on the field to increase your chances.
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Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:25:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728643Nice job boys, Nixon could have used your help in 60.
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Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:16:29 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728637Why not have home field advantage decided by best record between the two teams, and the ASG as a tiebreaker?
Also, the fan vote is stupid, but it’s also the same way that this country chooses our leaders.
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Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:11:17 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728635Ha! I called the ballot boxes being stuffed in Baltimore.
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Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:09:52 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728634I am in great favor of this. I hope they keep it up and make sure Matt Wieters gets elected starting Catcher for the AL team.

For the record, I’m not in favor just because they are voting for my team, but rather because I love how they are making a mockery of an otherwise terrible system that deserves to be shown for the ridiculousness it is.

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Wed, 25 Jun 2014 19:05:01 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=526884#comment-728628The solution is simple enough: the LEAGUE with the best record in Inter-league play receives home-field advantage… not the team, but the league. If the AL wins more games against NL teams, they receive home-field advantage, and vice versa…. you get the point.

The ASG is, and should be, as the others have stated: an exhibition for entertainment purposes only, especially with the way the players are selected in the first place. If it is to mean something, then let each league’s managers choose who is to represent their league. And let them play it like a real game… just as the others here have stated.

And who was truly upset with the tie game? If it is an exhibition FOR the fans, and to drum up interest in the game, then no one is upset with a tie. It was never a good idea to take a long-time exhibition game that is what it is and try to force it into something worthwhile.